Living Water

I hear people talking about different Scriptures and I think, why don't I know about that? I think I do know about some of them but perhaps when it is being talked about the person says it in a different way and I don't recognize it. Then there are the times I will read a certain Scripture and I don't understand it so I reread and reread it and yet I still don't understand it. Then at a later date I can read it and I will really get excited as the Lord has given me the understanding of it.


It was many years ago when this happened when I read John 4:14; "But whosoever drinketh of the water I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

I just couldn't get it through my head what it meant but like I said, the Lord finally give me understanding of the verse. I was really excited as I knew it was the Lord that had given me the understanding of it because I had so much trouble with it in the beginning.

The water Jesus was talking about means spiritual life. Why couldn't I get this through my head? I really don't know as it seems so clear to me now.

To drink of this water means we have to drink of it continually. Drinking of the water of life means we have to have a regular communion with Jesus Christ as He is the source of this living water. If the relationship with Jesus is severed we will not be able to drink of this water. Jesus is the one that nourishes our spiritual life. If we break away from Jesus, He will not nourish our spiritual life. The more time we spent with Him the more we know about Him and the relationship continues to grow and flourish.

The rivers of living water theory teaches us when the gift of the Spirit is given to believers, he will experience His overflowing life. Having this river of living water will flow out to others with the message of Jesus Christ.

God never wants us 'not to know' but I feel at times He will not allow us to understand a Scripture so we will read and reread and want to study His Word. When we really pray, read, and dig into His Word we find out so much about Him and also how to live our lives.

John 15:12; "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." If we love one another we know we have Jesus in us. Love helps us do so many things, it gives us compassion, understanding and gentleness as we deal with people. We should never be unkind to people and we should have understanding of their feelings.

Jesus gave us living water and now it is our turn to share it with others.

Thank you for stopping by and may you know the peace of the Lord. Blessings!

He Gives Me Strength

II Peter 2:9; "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished."


In our world today there is so much immorality along with lying, cheating, stealing and killing. Living in and around all of this we have to decide what way we are going. Do I choose the Lord and stay as close to Him as possible or will I live in this world and do the evil things? I will choose to do the things the Lord wants me to do and if that means I will not have the worldly things then so be it. I will not go along with what the world says is okay, I will not lie, cheat, or steal. I am building my life on the foundation of my Lord. As I have made my choice I know the Lord will give me the strength so that I can withstand the temptations of this world.

II Corinthians 12:9; "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." Grace is God's presence, power, and favor. This is a force, a heavenly strength, given to those who call upon the Lord. The strength He gives us is always sufficient for us as we live our daily lives.

We have to decide what we will do and be delivered from these things, this will be our deliverance and our destiny in eternity. If we reject the worldly things and the things people do to get ahead today God will rescue us.

A truly righteous person loves righteousness and hates evil. It is not enough that a child of God loves righteousness but we must hate the evil things. This is what God's Son, Jesus Christ did. Because Jesus' love of righteousness and the hate of wickedness is the reason for God's anointing Jesus. The Christians anointing will come only as he recognizes and has the same attitude toward righteousness and evil as Jesus did.

As we see lives being destroyed by sin and we experience more oneness with God our love of righteousness and the hatred of sin will grow.

The people who does not care for righteousness doesn't like authority that will restrain them from evil, nor do they want anything to do with the Lord and His Word. People not knowing the Lord would rather live their lives as they want. They don't want to learn what God is about. God is Love. I John 4:8; "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." They don't want to feel they have to love God let alone anyone else. We Christians love people. It really isn't hard to love, it is a natural thing for us.

The nonbeliever wants to live their life the way they want. They don't care how they live. As long as they get what they want whether it be money, clothes, houses, cars, or whatever, they don't care how they get it. They don't care who they hurt or what they have to do to get what they want.

The love Christians have is a genuine love and is accompanied by the love for God and the obeying of His commandments. Our faith overcomes the world and we see eternal realities and experience the power of God. We love Christ so much that the sinful pleasures, ungodly ways, the secular values of the world loses their attraction and we look at them with disgust and grief.

I would rather live for the Lord and love others than have all the worldly goods. I am happier than the ones that live in the world and without God. I know one of these days I will have all the riches I need. The riches are waiting for me in heaven.

Thank you for stopping by and may you know the peace of the Lord. Blessings!

A Peculiar People

I Peter 2:9; "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness in His marvellous light:"


We that believe in the Lord are set apart from the world in order to belong totally to God and to declare the gospel of salvation to His glory and praise. This means all true Christians are a chosen generation. We are one family which are a separate people from the common world.

We, true servants of Christ are a royal priesthood, we are separated from sin and sinners, consecrated to God. We are offering to God spiritual service and worship, acceptable to God through Jesus.

It is the Christians, wherever we may be that are an holy nation. We are God's peculiar people, we weren't always this way as we came out of darkness into the light.

I feel honored that God has chosen me to be one of His. At times when I feel I can't do the things He would have me do all I have to do is pray for His guidance. I know He will help me with whatever I ask. This doesn't mean that I won't have any struggles with whatever it is that He wants me to do but it means that He will help me.

Mark 10:27; "And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible." I know He will never ask me to do something that I can not do as whatever He asks of me He will show me the way to do it. He will never ask me to do something that He won't help me with.

Being a child of the Lord we should go out and tell the world about the Gospel. We are to open the eyes of the lost that are blinded by Satan. Some people are lost and they don't know it and unless they are told about the Light how will they know? Satan is the ruler of the world and those that do not know the Lord are under his control. Satan works in sinners and the ones that are disobedient to the Lord. We need to turn these people away from Satan. It is the statement of the gospel with the power of the Spirit that will deliver people from the power of Satan and turn them to Christ. Knowing Christ and having faith in Him and asking for forgiveness is when they will receive forgiveness for their sins. Being forgiven and being delivered from the state of sin and Satan they will now have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit , they will be set apart from the world and will now live for God and be in fellowship with those of us that are saved by faith in Christ.

Whenever we feel we can not help someone that doesn't know the Lord just remember, what is impossible for us is possible with God.

If someone says you are a peculiar person just think to yourself "I am so glad I am a peculiar person as that means I belong to Christ." Praise the Lord.

Thank you for stopping by and may you know the peace of the Lord. Blessings!